Will Guy / Ruth Levitas (eds.)

Interpreting Official Statistics

Herausgeber: Guy, Will; Levitas, Ruth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the official statistics produced about the current state of British society. It documents some of the ways in which information has been suppressed, manipulated and misinterpreted since 1979.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780415108362
• ISBN-10: 0415108365
• Artikelnr.: 21913189

Autorenporträt

Will Guy, Ruth Levitas

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Legacy of Rayner Ruth Levitas 2. The
Struggle for Independent Statistics on Poverty Peter Townsend 3. Fiddling
while Britain Burns: The 'Measurement of Unemployment' Ruth Levitas 4.
Social Class: Official, Sociological and Marxist Theo Nichols 5. Health for
All? Will Guy 6. Problems in Monitoring the Safety Performance in British
Manufacturing at the end of the Twentieth Century Theo Nichols 7. Figuring
out Working Women Jackie West 8. Counting Ethnicity: Social Groups and
Official Categories Steve Fenton 9. Disabled by Numbers Paul Abberley 10.
The Case of the Missing Crimes Robert Reiner